Summary

The chapter opens with Jeffrey explaining that his father’s name, Ross Lockhart, is fake, and that his mother informed him of this when he was a young adult. In fact, his real name was Jeffrey Satterswaite. Jeffrey questions whether anyone knows the genealogy or origins of both the Lockhart name and the Satterswaite name. The narrative shifts to the food unit, where Jeffrey sits and eats with the monk, who is wearing a black hoody under his robes. Jeffrey asks the monk about the videos on the hallway screens, specifically the aforementioned video involving men setting themselves on fire. The monk states that he is aware of the videos and the people in the specific video Jeffrey mentioned are monks. The monk goes on to explain that before he truly became a monk, he climbed a sacred Tibetan mountain, and that he...